Laura Robson

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

(Zones of Violence)
Sprecher: Ware, Lisa S

• MP3-CD

Produktbeschreibung

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states. The region's emergence as a "zone of violence," characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence--encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization--to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HighBridge Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 616 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798874708641
• Artikelnr.: 70077495

Autorenporträt

Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University and a recent Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. She has written or edited several books on Middle Eastern and global history, including Human Capital, The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East, and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov). She is cofounder and coeditor of StatelessHistories.org.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
The 'Mashriq' as a Zone of Violence * 1: The Late Ottoman Practice of Violence, 1878
1914 * 2: The Violence of World War, 1914
1920 * 3: Liberal Rhetoric and colonial Violence, 1920
1939 * 4: Violence and the Ethnic Nation
State, 1939
1949 * 5: Militarization and Violence in the Postcolonial State, 1949
1967 * 6: Money, Arms, and the New Sectarian Violence, 1967
1988 * 7: Violence and the New Internationalism, 1988
2003 * Epilogue
The Triumph of Violence in the Middle East